By Eng Geoffrey Chishimba Chiyumbe President Edgar Lungu in opening parliament on 11th September 2020, spoke about the need for innovation and resilience to drive our nation toward sustainable economic development. As daily power-cuts also called load shedding, become the new normal in Zambia, effects are being felt by households, farms and small businesses as […]
United Party for National Development (UPND) has accused PF of cutting power at Kariba Radio station prior to the party president Hakainde Hichilema’s scheduled appearance on radio yesterday. In a statement made to the media, the party accused ZESCO of colluding with the ruling party to curtail the voices of those with dissenting views. The […]
By JOHN SAKALA Chingola Chamber of Commerce First vice President Emmanuel Gardner has demanded for the immediate importation of power by Zesco. Speaking with The Independent Observer in an interview, Mr Gardner said running a business without power is unproductive. He said running a power generator set for 12 hours a day is expensive. “We […]
By JOHN SAKALA Mulonga Water and Sanitation Company need to do more sensitization to its consumers on the affordability of its water. Just imagine, 1, 000 litres (l) of treated water costing only K4.77 ngwee and yet one bottle of mineral water of 250 millilitres gobbling K5. This means if a customer was to accidentally […]
By JOHN SAKALA Mulonga Water and Sanitation Company has started tariff adjustment consultative scooping meetings for the period 2020 to 2023. The utility firm wants to increase its water tariffs for the period 2020 to 2023 to cope with prevailing economic atmosphere. In his presentation, MWSC Director of Finance Sila Siame said the proposed minimal […]
By Emmanuel Mwamba “The country is suffering loadshedding for up-to 12hrs a day.” “This is the worst power crisis our country has ever faced in the last 30 years!”. I said. “So why won’t ZESCO take the power, negotiated from South Africa?” I asked with genuine desperation. It was late 2015. The country was facing […]
…but Eng Stephen Chishimba calls for importing of power as immediate mitigation measure By JOHN SAKALA A seasoned Lusaka based Civil Engineer Lytone Kanowa says Zambian Engineers are making themselves irrelevant by remaining mute amid load shedding crisis. Eng Kanowa who has an engineering bias in Water and Sanitation said amid such crisis, Zambian Engineers […]
By Emmanuel Mwamba The boat was rocking violently from left right to right. I couldn’t see land at the horizon from where we were coming from or where we were going. The shade covering the boat was of no use. We were all soaked to the bone, and were gripped by the cold as the […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE Zesco has increased its customer base to 1, 000, 000 costumers connected to the National Grid. This is in line with its strategic focus areas of growing its business portfolio by increasing the customer base. The corporation has witnessed growth of about 400% between 2000 and 2019, with the customer base increasing […]
By JOHN SAKALA Zeaco has been directed to suspend the employment of new staff and freeze all vacant positions unless in exceptional circumstances; restructure the company by streamlining operations and reduce the current workforce. The Industrial Development Corporation under which Zesco falls has also directed the power utility company to abolish or merge functions or […]
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